Nicholas Oschman
I am an Upper School Social Sciences Teacher at The Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee and a researcher in philosophy, with a focus on Medieval Philosophy, particularly Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam, and the History of Ethics and Political Philosophy. I formerly participated in a Postdoctoral Fellowship with The Christian West and Islamic East: Theology, Science, and Knowledge project at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. And I am a member of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale and The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group, where I serve as the International Congress on Medieval Studies Coordinator.
My dissertation, defended at Marquette University in May 2020, was entitled Al-Fārābī, Metaphysics, and the Construction of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted if it leads to Happiness? It focused on al-Fārābī’s political philosophy, specifically his use of political deception, and the metaphysical commitments al-Fārābī adopts which allow him to justify the use of political deception.